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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

 

IDEA

Ideas for Development in the Americas, Volume 27:

The Skills Gap: Teens in the Workforce

http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=IDB-NW-105

or

http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36820616

[full-text, 12 pages]

 

Abstract:

 

This edition of IDEA focuses on secondary education in Latin America and examines the serious mismatch between what employers are seeking in terms of knowledge and skills, and what young people are actually learning in the region's schools. It draws on the findings of a new IDB book, Disconnected: Skills, Education and Employment in Latin America, and what they imply for public policy in education throughout the region.

 

 

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